The Fourth Dimension

The Fourth Dimension: Video, Space and the Broken Screen

Ofri Cnaani

Fall 2009, Tuesday, 6:30PM - 9:30PM, AHC-2388-A, Room 825B, 380 2nd Avenue.

The Broken Screen: Non-linear media

1.The Broken Image: Re-thinking structure – 09/22/09

Johan Grimonprez, Dara Birnbaum, Omer Fast, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Christian Marclay, Candice Brietz, Pierre Huyghe, An mey-le, Paul Pfeiffer.

2. Story line Manipulation: Interweaving plots and timelines – 10/06/09

Mike Figgis, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Jane and Louise Wilson, Beth Campbell, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler, Jesper Just, Doug Aitken, Chantal Akerman.

Reading: Roland Barthes, The Death of the Author, 1968

Three and Forth Dimensions: objects and new media.

3. Changing the notion of time and Space – 10/13/09

Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Garry Hill, Peter Weltz, Steve McuQeen, Tabaimo, Tony Oursler, Douglas Gordon, Bill Violla.

Reading: Ursula Frohne, Disillusion of the Frame: Immersion and Participation in Video Installation, Art and The Moving Image: Critical Reader, (2008) p.355-370

4. Special Chelsea gallery tour – 10/17/09

We’ll visit few time-based projects that are currently on display

Meeting place: NE corner of 22^nd st and 10^th ave.

5. Changing the notion of Viewership – 10/20/09

Stan VanDerBeek, Nam Jun Paik, Pipilotti Rist, Guy Ben-Ner, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Diana Thater, Julia Scher, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Julia Scher, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Fei Jun, Eddo Stern.

Reading: Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life (1984)

Spatial Narratives: moving images and architecture

6. Urban screens: Digital Media and Architectural Space – 10/27/09

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Robert Venturi, Rem Koolhaas / OMA, Jenny Holzer, Ligda Proup, Simon Attie, Ben Rubin, Golan Levin, O+A (Auinger+ Odland), Diller + Scofidio, Klara Hobza, ‘The 59th Minute’, Video as Urban Condition project, Perpetual Art Machine.

Reading: Lev Manovich, The poetics of urban media surfaces. (2006)